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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Farmington, PA · June 14, 2013

Date
June 14, 2013 · 11:30 local
Place
Farmington, PA
Airport
Nemacolin
Phase of flight
Taxi
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N415CA
Reported as
Piper PA-28-181
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
387 total295 in this make and model8 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot started his taxi run from parking. While attempting to maneuver the aircraft around an air compressor, his foot slipped off of the brake and the aircraft's left wing tip struck the air compressor.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT STARTED HIS TAXI RUN FROM PARKING. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO MANEUVER THE AIRCRAFT AROUND AN AIR COMPRESSOR, HIS FOOT SLIPPED OFF OF THE BRAKE AND THE AIRCRAFT'S LEFT WING TIP STRUCK THE AIR COMPRESSOR.